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{ Monthly Archives } March 2005

Top 10 Delphi Marketing Suggestions?

In a post to the borland.public.delphi.non-technical newsgroup Delphi marketing manager Mike Slinn said he’s interested in hearing "top 10" issues for Delphi. I’ll give it a shot….

2005 03 25 Delphi Comments (2)

Release Early

Why to release a version of your new product before it’s really ready, and why not to.

2005 03 24 General Software Development Comments (1)

Why is Borland’s SDO Marketing So Misguided?

The ideas are explosive, the products are in the pipeline, and any developer who actually wants to enjoy themselves and pay their bills writing software can’t afford to miss them. So why doesn’t Borland want to tell us about them?
Updated to clarify comments on the conference and add a link to Allen Bauer’s comments on the same issue.

Rob Schieck’s Busy, Busy Server

Rob Schieck posted some InterBase 7.5 server statistics from one of his clients to borland.public.interbase.general….

2005 03 23 InterBase Comments (3)

Dispose Diverted

Here’s an interesting question: Under what circumstances in the code below (the Delphi and C# versions should produce identical results) is Dispose not called?

2005 03 21 .NET
Delphi
General Software Development Comments (2)

BorCon 2005 Call for Papers Clarified

For the benefit of those who don’t read the borland.public.conference newsgroup, here’s a message that John Kaster posted clarifying the BorCon Call for Papers…

2005 03 21 CodeRage
Delphi
InterBase Comments (0)

Start ‘Em Young

My two year-old daughter found her first bug a few months ago. (In one of the games at www.bobthebuilder.com.) I’m so proud! Now I just have to teach her to write a bug report….

2005 03 19 General Software Development Comments (2)

VCL for .NET on Compact Framework?

Much to my surprise, Danny Thorpe discusses the possibility of the VCL for .NET on .NET Compact Framework. I’ve updated my Choosing Between VCL for .NET and WinForms article, which had previously discounted the possibility of this ever happening.

2005 03 19 .NET
Delphi Comments (0)

BorCon 2005 Call for Papers Posted

Borland has posted the Call for Papers for BorCon 2005. ~~Here’s why I’m not planning on attending.~~ Update: Borland has clarified this.

2005 03 18 CodeRage
Delphi
General Software Development
InterBase Comments (1)

Safety First

From time to time folks see fit to publish lists of what the general priorities for developing a software project should be. The funny thing about these lists is that almost all of them omit what I consider to be the number one priority….

2005 03 18 ACM
Delphi
General Software Development
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